The haves and the have nots

While I was shampooing the carpet yesterday, yes that ugly pink carpet that I will explain why I still have, I got a text from my mom- my biological mom, not the other one. She asked what I was doing and I told her that I was cleaning the carpet and getting ready to clean the rest of the house, and her response was the same as it always is "Why are you always cleaning your house, your house isn't dirty". First of all, my house is dirty and stays in various states of unclean most of the time. Secondly, if I didn't clean my house all the time, it would be beyond dirty and into the filthy category. Let me also say that thanks to the mother who raised me, not the same as the one who birthed me, my standards of clean of somewhat skewed. She kept the house near immaculate most of the time. We had a living room and a dining room that we weren't even allowed to go into because they were for "company". The Avon lady apparently fell into this category, as she was allowed to sit on the "good" couch. Now my mother would argue that our house was never that clean, but I tell you that everything was put away and cleaned up at the end of every day. Because of that,  I consider dusty furniture a form of dirty as well as seemingly clean floors that have just not been vacuumed or mopped. For the record, that same standard does not apply to other people's houses, just mine. Anyway, all that brings me to this; I have a relatively clean house because I have not been ignoring it. It will not just go away. Do you ever see thin people going to the gym or running down the street and you think "they have the perfect body, why are they going to the gym"? They have a great body because they have not been sitting on the couch eating cheesy poofs and watching soaps. Fat is like dirt, it won't just go away either. ;-P
So back to my explanation about the carpet. We still have pink carpet because we have not saved the money to replace it. We had it, but decided to allot it for other things. For example, remember how I was saying that I like the sound of an air stapler and nailer? Look out world, Henry bought a whole set up today. It is for a specific purpose, but we have been talking about getting one for a while and are always doing projects and thinking "if only we had a nailer, this would go so much faster". True, the carpet if likely more visible than anything we will do with the nailer, but the nailer makes us happy. We have lived with the carpet this long, what's a few more months. Heck, if we put it off long enough we will be able to just get laminate and skip the other. Anyway, I shampooed the carpet with the big carpet cleaner fueled with this high dollar but awesome cleaning solution that has a light orange scent, got up stuff other cleaners have left behind, and made the house smell like a clean hotel room for a day. I have not gotten new flooring, but I have old flooring that is much cleaner than it was.